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A symmetrical red-rubble hospital uses carved dormers and a formal doorway to give civic dignity to community care.
Quick facts
- Date
- 1928–1929
- Architect / designer
- Stewart and Paterson
- Type
- Scots-style community hospital
- Designation
- Listed building, Category B (LB21354)
- OS grid reference
- NN 93689 12584
Architecture and continuing use
The two-storey, five-window centre is flanked by gabled wings. Red snecked rubble provides the main walling, while sculptured dormer heads and an Ionic doorpiece enrich the balanced front. Its seventeenth-century Scots references are adapted to an interwar institutional plan.
Its story
Stewart and Paterson designed the hospital in 1928–29. It became a long-standing healthcare centre for Auchterarder and the surrounding district. Recent official NHS recruitment described a twelve-bed GP unit offering rehabilitation, step-down and palliative care, while national statistics record that the separate minor-injury function closed in 2020.
What to notice
- Sculptured dormer heads above the central range.
- The classical Ionic entrance within Scots-style masonry.
- Gabled wings framing the balanced approach.
Reading the surroundings
This is an operational healthcare site. Attend only for an appointment, authorised visit or lawful exterior view, and follow NHS privacy, parking and infection-control requirements.
Timeline
- 1928–1929 Stewart and Paterson designed and built the community hospital.
- 5 October 1971 The hospital entered the statutory list at Category B.
- April 2020 The separate minor-injury service closed, while other hospital care continued.
- 2025 NHS Tayside recruited staff for the active GP inpatient unit.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
NHS services can change; the record distinguishes current inpatient care from the closed minor-injury function.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: St Margaret’s Community Hospital, Auchterarder, LB21354 — Current designation status, official mapped location, date, fabric and significance.
- NHS Scotland jobs: St Margaret’s Community Hospital GP Unit — Recent official NHS evidence that the building contains a community-hospital GP unit providing rehabilitation, step-down and palliative care.
- Trove: St Margaret’s Hospital, Auchterarder — National heritage inventory, mapped location and archive photographs for the hospital.
- Perth and Kinross Council: Auchterarder environmental report — Local-authority inventory and environmental evidence identifying Auchterarder’s listed buildings and historic setting.
Location
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